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In Bone-Colored Light features a collection of works created for Zeitgeist in the first decade of the new millennium. As an aural portrait of our artistic work of the last 10 years, it reveals the fertile creative relationships we forged and the aesthetic concerns that piqued our artistic curiosity. As performers, our relationship with these works and the people who created them has been spiritually enlivening, intellectually challenging and joyously transformative. Each of these works is remarkable, and the artistic voice resonating through each is undeniably singular. As a collection, they represent our zeitgeist.  

Performed by Heather Barringer, percussion; Patti Cudd; percussion; Pat O'Keefe, woodwinds; and Shannon Wettstein, piano, In Bone-Colored Light features new music composed by Anthony Gatto, Kathy Jackanich, Jerome Kitzke, Ivo Medek and Ethan Wickman.

A strong contemporary music record, I like it a lot. Then again, Zeitgeist is not your usual quartet: piano, woodwinds, and two percussionists. So the focus is on rhythm. Works by Anthony Gatto, Ivo Medek, Kerome Kitzke, Kathy Kackanich and Ethan Wickman. The Gatto piece, Lucky Dreams, unfolds in a Zappa-esque rhythmical complexity that immediately talked to me. Wickman’s triptych Angles of Repose offers sophisticated and highly complex music that verges on rock-in-opposition.
—Francois Couture

The group's ambitious goal is declared, capturing the spirit, music and time in which we live. Zeitgeist offers a great quantity and variety of percussion instruments, piano (often used in a percussive), and clarinets and/or saxophones. Equally apt is the choice of repertoire. In this CD the group has favored a program of compositions written in the post-minimalist style: short and rapid thematic overlap, giving rise to tissues of great rhythmic energy, which alternate and sometimes collide, creating structures typical of this style. The image of modernity that emerges is that of humanity subject to an accelerated pace of life, stressful at times, but also exciting and fascinating in a frenzy that few know. There is still room to dream, laugh, walk outdoors, sing, whistle , play, enjoy life and nature. The ensemble shows that they are at home with a versatility that goes hand in hand with virtuosity.
—Philip Fiery

On this album the folks in Zeitgeist take on the works of some of their favorite composers. In Bone-Colored Light features compositions by six composers: Anthony Gatto, Ivo Medek, Jerome Kitzke, Kathy Jackanich, and Ethan Wickman. These recordings were obviously a labor of love. Zeitgeist is Heather Barringer (percussion), Patti Cudd (percussion), Pat O'Keefe (woodwinds), and Shannon Wettstein (piano). These four individuals spent a great deal of time meticulously recording and mixing these pieces...the precise attention to detail is obvious. Some of these tracks are melodic and somewhat accessible...while others are experimental and bizarre. Challenging music with a distinctly different flavor. This music is remarkably fluid and resonant. Hard to compare this one to anything else. The folks at Innova Recordings continue to blow our minds year after year after year... Top pick.
—babysue

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